Next Steps From Will Smith Grand Canyon Helicopter Jump for Education Cannot Wait to Be Announced at Saturday’s Global Citizen Festival in New York’s Central Park
ECW director takes stage at global citizen festival to highlight growing movement to provide education for children living in crisis
Time: 29 September 2018, 5:40PM
Place: Central Park Great Lawn
Registration: The Global Citizen Festival is a free ticketed event. For interview requests to discuss the “Will Smith: The Jump” campaign and Education Cannot Wait, contact Ms. Anouk Desgroseilliers, adesgroseilliers@unicef.org, +1 917 640-6820
Organizers: Education Cannot Wait and Global Citizen
Speakers: Yasmine Sherif, Director, Education Cannot Wait (5:40PM anticipated speaking slot).
About Global Citizen Festival: The Global Citizen Festival will be hosted by Deborra-Lee Furness and Hugh Jackman. Expected artists: Janet Jackson, The Weekend, Shawn Mendes, Cardi B, Janelle Monáe.
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Will Smith, Hollywood’s favorite leading man and a high-profile advocate for child’s rights, bungee jumped from a helicopter over the Grand Canyon this week, raising funds for Education Cannot Wait, a global fund that aims to generate additional resources to close the annual US$8.5 billion gap to meet the needs of the 75 million children and young people whose education is disrupted by conflict and crisis.
Education Cannot Wait Director Yasmine Sherif will be at Saturday’s Global Citizen Festival in New York’s Central Park to share the next steps from the “Will Smith: The Jump” campaign as part of new significant contributions to the global fund.
The donations from the campaign will be allocated to Education Cannot Wait through Global Citizen, who partnered with the Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation on this initiative.
“I’ve had a whole lifetime of feeling squashed, and squelched and controlled by fear. Fear kills your ability to see beauty.” – Will Smith: The Jump
Links
- Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation
- Global Citizen
- Will Smith is bungee-jumping for the cause of Education Cannot Wait!
Notes to Editors:
Details on ECW’s Resource Mobilization Challenge are available at: www.educationcannotwait.org/challenge
About Education Cannot Wait (ECW)
ECW is a global fund launched by international humanitarian and development aid actors, along with public and private donors, to deliver education in conflict and crisis settings. The Fund aims to generate additional resources to close the annual $8.5 billion gap to meet the needs of 75 million children and young people whose education is disrupted by crisis. ECW’s investment modalities are designed to usher in a more collaborative approach among actors on the ground, ensuring relief and development organizations join forces to achieve education outcomes.
ECW’s Secretariat is hosted by UNICEF in its Headquarters in New York.
Additional information is available at www.educationcannotwait.org
For press enquiries and to schedule an interview, contact:
Ms. Anouk Desgroseilliers,
adesgroseilliers@unicef.org, +1 917 640-6820
For Press Inquiries:
Anouk Desgroseilliers:
adesgroseilliers@un-ecw.org
+1-917-640-6820
Kent Page:
kpage@unicef.org
+1-917-302-1735
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